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Topic: Fashion (38 records)

Blanka Matragi

Czech fashion designer working in Lebanon and in the Czech Republic. Her important clients are mainly celebrities in the countries of the Persian Gulf.

Tereza Maxová

Foremost Czech model of international renown, philanthropist, founder of children’s charity organisation Tereza Maxová Foundation.

Moira

Czech textile company that manufactures functional underwear for sports and everyday use from its own patented materials. It became internationally famous as manufacturer of protective underwear for armed forces.

Moldavites

Authentic Czech rock with a unique green colour, used for jewellery. They are the only green tektites in the world and their richest deposits are located in southern Bohemia, in the basin of the river Vltava.

Moser

Glassware manufacturer from Karlovy Vary, producing luxury, perfectly crafted glass sculptures and glass sets. Its world-famous crystal is called the glass of kings.

National Style

Art style drawing from folk ornamental motifs and rural culture, popular especially in the 19th century, which became the basis of Czechoslovak national style and visual identity after the formation of independent Czechoslovakia.

Panel housing estates

One of the most typical forms of residential architecture in socialist Czechoslovakia (1948–1989). More than one quarter of the population of the Czech Republic still live in panel housing estates.

Paulina Pořízková

The first Czech world-famous supermodel, regarded as modelling face of the 1980s. She is known for her campaigns for the cosmetics brand Estée Lauder and Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.

Prestige sports shoes

Legendary Czech sports shoes with a characteristic silhouette. Also popular as practical and durable working shoes. They became popular again at the turn of the millennia due to collaboration with young designers.

Rosenbaum Couture House

One of the most luxurious haute couture companies of the first half of the 20th century on the territory of modern day Czech Republic, owned by Oldřich Rosenbaum.

Oldric Royce

Famous Czech-born fashion designer from New York, who designed clothes for wives of American presidents and Hollywood stars. Oldric Royce, born Oldřich Rosenbaum, managed one of the most important fashion salons in interwar Czechoslovakia.

Sokol costume

Traditional historicist clothing worn by members of the Sokok movement on ceremonial occasions. It consists of the Sokol jacket, the so-called kajda with a Czamara frog fastening, a red shirt and riding breeches or a skirt.

Tilak

Czech clothing company manufacturing technical sports clothes from functional materials. Its fashion brand Poutnik by Tilak, designed by Errolson Hugh’s studio ACRONYM, has achieved international renown.

TONAK

World famous Czech manufacturer of felt hats from Nový Jičín, continuing the tradition of the Hückel family company. A major supplier of half-finished hat products to the companies Borsalino and Stetson, as well as to the designer Philip Treacy.

Tuzex

A foreign trade enterprise with a network of shops with western luxury goods. A social phenomenon of socialist Czechoslovakia.

Uniform gym suit

Unified outfit for physical education lessons. In socialism, it consisted of a white t-shirt, shorts whose colour depended on the sex and sports shoes – the so-called Jarmilky and Toníky.

Veba Broumov

Czech textile company with a tradition of manufacturing damask and jacquard textiles in Broumov and Police nad Metují. It is one of the most significant exporter of the so-called African brocade.

Zmijovka

Czech woollen hat with a characteristic zig-zag pattern resembling a snake, popular as a part of working outfit.

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